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Service Corp International

SCI on NYSE. Service Corp International sells funerals, burials, and cemetery plots to families. Market value $10.4bn.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
6.0%high

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $6.01 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
past 12 months to June 2026
16.0×full

You pay 16.0 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
12.2%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns 12 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 72 of 100. Price score: 87 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$77.30 a share, 13% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $68.41 to $90.99.

Dividend: 1.7% a year

Paid every year for at least 5 years

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

0.6
0.5
0.5
0.6
0.6
0.6
2021202220232024202512 monthsto Jun '26
Revenue
$4.1bn$4.1bn$4.1bn$4.2bn$4.3bn
Operating margin
28.7%22.6%23.0%22.2%22.7%
Debt to equity
2.152.643.112.953.21
Shares outstanding
0.15bn0.15bn0.14bn0.14bn0.14bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive5 of 5 years
  • Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
  • Financial strength (Piotroski)7 of 9
  • Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
  • Debt3.21× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 4.2% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesYes, 12% fewer since 2021

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $1.1 billion last quarter, about the same as a year ago.
  • Profit: $125 million, up 2% on a year ago.
  • It keeps 22 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, about the same as a year earlier.
  • Spare cash over the past 12 months: $635 million, down from $642 million.
  • 3% fewer shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit more of the company.
  • Debt is $5 billion more than cash, up from $4.8 billion a year ago.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$1.0bn
December 2024$1.1bn
March 2025$1.1bn
June 2025$1.1bn
September 2025$1.1bn
December 2025$1.1bn
March 2026$1.1bn
June 2026$1.1bn
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$118m
December 2024$151m
March 2025$143m
June 2025$123m
September 2025$117m
December 2025$159m
March 2026$136m
June 2026$125m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
12 February 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
29 October 2026

Who owns it

3 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 3 last quarter. 547 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

4 investors own more than 5%.

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 7 sold $42m.

  • TANZBERGER ERIC D
    Exec. VP, and CFO
    Sold
    Date
    3 August 2026
    Shares
    54,800
    Price
    $86.04
    Value
    $5m
  • RYAN THOMAS L
    CEO & Chairman, Director
    Sold
    Date
    31 July 2026
    Shares
    253,391
    Price
    $85.25
    Value
    $22m
  • Faulk John H
    SVP, COO
    Sold
    Date
    31 July 2026
    Shares
    24,600
    Price
    $85.65
    Value
    $2m
  • COELHO TONY
    Director
    Sold
    Date
    10 March 2026
    Shares
    7,700
    Price
    $79.87
    Value
    $614,999
  • Moore Tammy R
    VP, Chief Accounting Officer
    Sold
    Date
    13 February 2026
    Shares
    5,000
    Price
    $80.48
    Value
    $402,400
  • Nash Elisabeth G.
    Sr. V.P. Operations Services
    Sold
    Date
    4 December 2025
    Shares
    42,400
    Price
    $76.32
    Value
    $3m
  • TANZBERGER ERIC D
    Exec. VP, and CFO
    Sold
    Date
    5 November 2025
    Shares
    80,800
    Price
    $81.53
    Value
    $7m
  • WARING SUMNER J III
    President
    Sold
    Date
    31 October 2025
    Shares
    30,300
    Price
    $83.15
    Value
    $3m

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

None of the warning signs we check for were found.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 12 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 30 Jul 2026 and 9 later 8-Ks.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

What could go wrong

  • It carries a lot of debt: 3.2× its equity.

Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.

What changed in the risks this year

Companies must list what could hurt them each year. These are the parts that changed since last year’s report.

  • A failure of a key information technology system or process could disrupt and adversely affect our business.

    Could happen
    We may use artificial intelligence (“AI”) technologies in limited aspects of our operations and information technology systems. AI technologies are evolving and may give rise to operational, legal, regulatory, data security, and privacy risks. Such technologies may produce inaccurate, misleading, or biased outputs or be improperly used by employees, which could adversely affect our business, reputation, financial condition, or results of operations. In addition, increased governmental or regulatory scrutiny or legal claims related to AI could result in additional costs or liabilities, even where our use of AI is limited in our information technology systems and processes.
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Read it in the annual report

The deep dive

Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.

  • What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
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  • The three things that would make this a mistake
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